If you need help focusing your research efforts visit these resources.
Directories
Results on these resources are brought to you by human editors not algorithmic programs (spiders).
When you have broad topics to research, e.g., Galileo, Civil War, Nile River, etc., it's more efficient to use directories (Librarian's Internet Index-LII) over search engines (Google). Directories offer students categories to search (assistive navigation) and all the websites/resources/links in a directory have been examined by a editor (a human) before being committed to the directory.
Subject specialists review and evaluate thousands of resources to help you choose the key websites in your subject. Intute is a collaborative effort between 7 major UK universities including the University of Oxford, Nottingham, and Manchester Metropolitan University. This directory is geared towards high school and college level students.
Search results are displayed in a visual and contextual format, e.g., hubs with spokes and thumbnails of relevant website pages with brief descriptions of website content.
Displays search results as a grid of thumbnails of each page in the search results. Place your cursor over one of the thumbnails to see an enlarged image.
Google is great for specific questions, e.g., daily life Elizabethan England or average weight mole rat.
Google Search Options
Google is always improving their assistive navigation features. Wonder Wheel, Related Searches, and Timeline, are powerful tools that can help students narrow their search results and locate relevant resources. To locate these tools just type in your search term into Google and when you get your results click on the +Show Options link at the top of the results page. Scroll down to access the following features:
Wonder Wheel
Wonder Wheel provides search results in a visual format.
Wonder Wheel this will link you to a step-by-step video on how to access and use Wonder Wheel.
Related Searches
Google will offer additional search terms based on your original search term to help narrow your results. For example, type in the search term "medieval architecture" and click on Related Searches and Google will respond with:
history of medieval architecture, notre dame medieval, medieval buildings, baroque architecture, middle ages architecture, renaissance architecture, british medieval architecture, medieval art and architecture, etc.
Timeline
From Google:
Timeline is a web application that organizes search results chronologically. It allows users to view news and other data sources on a browsable, graphical timeline. Available data sources include recent and historical news, scanned newspapers and magazines, blog posts, sports scores, and information about various types of media, like music albums and movies.
Search Google and get results in a table that can be saved. Hard to describe, easier to see. Tables can be saved for quick retrieval and review.You have to see this to understand it.
If you need help focusing your research efforts visit these resources.
Directories
Results on these resources are brought to you by human editors not algorithmic programs (spiders).
When you have broad topics to research, e.g., Galileo, Civil War, Nile River, etc., it's more efficient to use directories (Librarian's Internet Index-LII) over search engines (Google). Directories offer students categories to search (assistive navigation) and all the websites/resources/links in a directory have been examined by a editor (a human) before being committed to the directory.
The Open Directory Project
Librarian’s Internet Index
Internet Public Library
Refdesk
Best of the Web
Includes Blog directory.
IPL Ready Reference (direct link to reference sources--encyclopedias, almanacs, dictionaries, etc.)
Infomine
Intute
Subject specialists review and evaluate thousands of resources to help you choose the key websites in your subject. Intute is a collaborative effort between 7 major UK universities including the University of Oxford, Nottingham, and Manchester Metropolitan University. This directory is geared towards high school and college level students.
JoeAnt
Includes Blog directory.
Awesome Library
BubLink
KidsClick
Encyclopedia Smithsonian
Fact Monster
StartingPoint
diddabdoo
"We utilise Google's URL filter to restrict the results from sites that have been reviewed by human's and classified as kid/teen safe."
CyberSleuth for Kids
Visual Search Engines
Search results are displayed in a visual and contextual format, e.g., hubs with spokes and thumbnails of relevant website pages with brief descriptions of website content.
eyePlorer
Kartoo
Mugurdy
Displays search results as a grid of thumbnails of each page in the search results. Place your cursor over one of the thumbnails to see an enlarged image.
Spezify
Search Engines
Google
Google is great for specific questions, e.g., daily life Elizabethan England or average weight mole rat.
Google Search Options
Google is always improving their assistive navigation features. Wonder Wheel, Related Searches, and Timeline, are powerful tools that can help students narrow their search results and locate relevant resources. To locate these tools just type in your search term into Google and when you get your results click on the + Show Options link at the top of the results page. Scroll down to access the following features:
Wonder Wheel
Wonder Wheel provides search results in a visual format.
Wonder Wheel this will link you to a step-by-step video on how to access and use Wonder Wheel.
Related Searches
Google will offer additional search terms based on your original search term to help narrow your results. For example, type in the search term "medieval architecture" and click on Related Searches and Google will respond with:
medieval gothic architecture, medieval romanesque architecture, medieval cathedral architecture, medieval castle architecture
history of medieval architecture, notre dame medieval, medieval buildings, baroque architecture, middle ages architecture, renaissance architecture, british medieval architecture, medieval art and architecture, etc.
From Google:Timeline
Timeline is a web application that organizes search results chronologically. It allows users to view news and other data sources on a browsable, graphical timeline. Available data sources include recent and historical news, scanned newspapers and magazines, blog posts, sports scores, and information about various types of media, like music albums and movies.
Google Squared (beta version)
Search Google and get results in a table that can be saved. Hard to describe, easier to see. Tables can be saved for quick retrieval and review.You have to see this to understand it.
Other Search Engines
Bing
Wolfram|Alpha
Yahoo
Ask
Search
AltaVista
About
Answers
All the Web
Lycos
Gigablast
Yahoo! Kids
Country-based Search Engines
Country search engines and regional search engines - currently a total of 4,017 search engines and 222 countries, territories, islands and regions.
Meta Search Engines
Meta search engines search multiple sources simultaneously
Dogpile
Vivisimo
Mamma
Clusty
ixquick
HotBot
Excite
WebCrawler
Family Friendly Search
IceRocket
Blog & Social Networking Search
Jux2
Compare Google, Yahoo, and MSN with One Search
Turbo10
FREE Citation Builders
FREE websites that will create MLA (Modern Language Association) citations for research papers.
Whether you are quoting a source directly or paraphrasing from a source you MUST cite your source.
EasyBib
Son of Citation Machine
NoodleBib (MLA)
bibme